Should Protestants reframe purgatory as final sanctification?

Last night, over a communal dinner, the conversation turned to John 17, and then to the status of Judas Iscariot, and then to the notion of โ€œperditionโ€ (Jn 17:12), which may refer to โ€œdestruction, ruin, or ultimate loss.โ€ From there, we skirted around the theology of predestination and Judasโ€™s assumed eternal fate, and then on …

Here in the grace of God I stand

A sermon by Rod Benson Romans 6:1-14 Apart from restrooms, and ticketless parking, one of the most useful things about modern shopping malls is the addition of touchscreen information maps in strategic locations throughout the facility. I enter the mall and type in a store name, or product type, and up comes a map identifying …

The display of God’s splendour

A sermon by Rod Benson Isaiah 61:1-3 Many years ago, a Bible teacher from the Plymouth Brethren movement named Harold Paisley, the brother of the fiery Irish Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Ian Paisley, said to me that in any congregation or gathering of Godโ€™s people there will be some who are struggling with grief, or …